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Thursday, June 27, 2013

A lot has happened this week that has not been fun for a
conservative.

On Monday the Senate passed the Corker Hoeven amendment and
managed to get cloture on the “immigration” amnesty bill.

It amazes me that the same republicans who have complained
loudly in the budget debate that we can’t have tax increases with the promise
of spending cuts later are willing to allow legislation with the promise of
future securing of the border.

I’m particularly disappointed with Senator Rubio &
Senator Ayotte.Both had been supported
by Sarah Palin andTea Party groups and
both had promised not to be supportive of amnesty.

Palin said
Rubio had promised that "border security would come first," and he
would not support "legalization of illegal
immigrants" and "amnesty" before border security while running
in the Florida Republican Senate primary against Charlie Crist in 2010. She
said Ayotte, whom she endorsed, had on her campaign website in 2010 that there
were "no excuses" not to secure the border and also said she would
not support amnesty.

"I
think that they should be challenged. I don't have a problem with heated
debates and contested primaries where they have to answer to constituents
regarding their flip-flopping on such a fundamental position as amnesty for
illegal immigrants," she told Gibson. "I don't have a problem at all
with contested primaries. In fact, competition makes us all better and makes us
be held accountable and I'd like to see them held accountable and answer as to
why it is that they flip-flopped."

On Rubio there are two possibilities that come to my
mind.Rubio might have been played, he’s
fairly young and occasionally such people are played.If he just came out and said so people would
let it go.

As for Senator Ayotte I suspect part of this flip is out of
deference to her allies McCain and Graham who she has worked closely with on
Benghazi (and done yeoman work) but I suspect part of it is because she was
trying to get the left off of her back over the Toomey Manchin.

Nashua
Mayor DonnaleeLozeau said she resigned from "Mayors Against Illegal
Guns" on May 10, shortly after joining the nationwide coalition, because
it went beyond its stated principles of "keeping illegal guns out of
dangerous hands."

Lozeau said she did not know when she joined the group that it would
"unfairly attack" fellow Nashuan Sen. Kelly Ayotte in a $2 million
barrage of ads after Ayotte opposed an amendment calling for universal
background checks for gun purchases in April.

Speaker John A. Boehner reiterated to House Republicans this morning
that he will not bring up the Senate’s immigration overhaul for a vote in the
House. “Weeks ago, I — along with Eric, Kevin, Cathy and Bob Goodlatte —
issued a statement making clear that the House is not going to just take up and
vote on whatever the Senate passes,” Boehner told lawmakers, per a source in
the room. "We’ll do our own bill, through regular order and it’ll be a
bill that reflects the will of our majority and the people we represent.”
...

As Sean Connery’s Character said in the League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen “Wait, always wait”

On Tuesday in Massachusetts Ed Markey running in a
special election with no other democrat on the ballot managed to only pull 60%
of the vote that one of the worst candidates in US Senate History Martha
Coakley.

Opposing him was Gabriel Gomez, Navy Seal, Navy Pilot,
successful businessman and a 1st Generation immigrant from
Columbia.With the GOP arguing loudly
that the immigration bill needed to pass to get Hispanics to be willing to vote
Democrats Gomez who won the primary with over 50% despite straying from the
bases position on Climate Change, Gun Control, was apparently a perfect fit
since he also endorsed the gang of eight bill even before the Corker
Hoeven was suggested.

And while Gomez won several towns back that Brown had lost
in 2012 the appeal among Hispanic voters was apparently overstated:

So on
election day they went to a city with many people from “Hispanica” and said:
“Look our candidate is a child of Hispanica just like you! Come vote for
him!” But the people of that city said: We’ve never heard of a country
called “Hispanica” Our parents come from a country called “The Dominican
Republic” and they voted for the party they always did.

Then they
went to another town and said “Look our candidate is from the land of Hispanica
just like you” and the people of that town said: “We’ve never heard of a land
called ‘Hispanica” our fathers came from a land called “Brazil” and they voted
for the party they always did.

Ok that’s not exactly
how it happened but the bottom line is he drew only 45% of the vote.

I’m sorry, Gabriel Gomez is a nice guy with a great
personal story but if supporting amnesty doesn’t do the trick with Spanish
speaking voters when you’re running a 1st generation Columbian with
the last name “Gomez” odds are you aren’t going to do better supporting this
kind of bill with the last name “Alexander” or Graham.

Then later in the evening after a long Filibuster in the Texas
was finally broken the mob managed to stall long enough to block a bill that
would have prevented the next Kermit Gosnell in Texas.Stopping the bill made the left absolutely
giddy.

Donna Brazille compared the fight to stop that abortion
bill to the civil rights era.She was
right in on respect, just like in the old days the people fighting hardest for
the right to kill black children were democrats.

Then came Wednesday and a pair of Supreme Court rulings,
first the a section of DOMA was overturned meaning the Federal government has
to treat gay married couples in state where it is legal in terms of
benefits.The most amazing thing about
the ruling was the impugning of the motives of all those who have opposed Gay
Marriage as Rush put it:

In 1996,
the Defense of Marriage Act passed the House of Representatives 342 to
67. It passed the Senate 85 to 14. What a bunch of bigots! The
Supreme Court majority today said that all of those 342 in the House and those
85 in the Senate passed the Defense of Marriage Act 'cause they hated gays.

And they
wanted to punish gays, and they wanted to demean gays, and they wanted to
impugn gays, and they wanted to impugn homosexuality. That's why 342
members of the House passed DOMA, and that's why 85 Senators voted for
it. Bill Clinton signed it into law, and today Bill Clinton and his
lovely and gracious wife, Hillary Rodham Rodham, issue a statement hailing the
decision overturning the Defense of Marriage Act which he signed into
law.

Nobody was talking about this at all 20 years ago.Who knew the entire population of the country
since its founding was a bunch of evil bigots all that time?No wonder the self-righteous left hates them
so.

Worse than the first decision was the second that
effectively repealed California’s Prop 8 which was a ballot initiative
forbidding gay marriage in the California constitution.

The court rules the people appealing a lower court that cancelled
out the successful referendum did not have standing.The problem the folks who DID have standing
to appeal, the state had vehemently opposed the referendum (which is why the
people went that route) and absolutely refused to defend it in court:

Why go through
all that time and effort and expense when even if you win, all the party
machine needs is a single sympathetic lower court judge to rule in their and
violà you’re foiled without standing to appeal.

Fans of Gay
Marriage might be cheering today, but not as loud as fans of one party
autocratic government.

I have been
banned in Britain.My crime?My principled dedication to
freedom. I am a human rights activist dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom
of conscience and individual rights for all before the law. I fiercely oppose
violence and the persecution and oppression of minorities under supremacist
law. I deplore violence and work for the preservation of freedom of speech to
avoid violent conflict.

I have
never been convicted of any crime. I have never been arrested. I became a
writer and activist in the wake of 911.

For this I
am banned. I shed no tears. I am banned from Mecca, too.

When the current queen dies England will die.There will still be a place on the map called
“England” but the name will mean nothing.

And to top it all off the Bruins blew the Stanley Cup and
June has been the worst month for DaTipJar all year and my brother-in-law is
bad….Very Bad